Half-sandwich group 4 metal siloxy and silsesquioxane complexes: Soluble model systems for silica-grafted olefin polymerization catalysts

Organometallics

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 5447-5459

  Duchateau, Robbert ^a   Cremer, Ulrich ^a   Harmsen, Roelant J ^a   Mohamud, Said I ^a   Abbenhuis, Hendrikus C L ^a   Van Santen, Rutger A ^a   Meetsma, Auke ^b   Thiele, Sven K H ^c   Van Tol, Maurits F H ^c   Kranenburg, Mirko ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c DSM RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000020407     PISSN: 02767333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/om9904495     Document Type: Article

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